Steve Gerlach

The Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) is the most far-reaching piece of employee benefits legislation passed in the last 40 years. With over 20,000 pages of regulations and other guidance, the ACA is profoundly affecting our...more

Bonding Off A Lien In Maine – It’s Time For A New Statute -
With the recovering economy, there is certainly more construction work going on, and that tends to lead to more fights over people getting paid, and many...more

Under the Affordable Care Act’s Employer Mandate, employers with 50 or more full-time equivalent employees are required to offer affordable, minimum value health coverage to at least 95% of their full-time employees (and...more

Happy New Year from your friends and advisors in Bernstein Shur’s Labor and Employment Practice Group. Usually, the new year comes with reviews of the past. At Bernstein Shur, we look forward to the future with a firm...more

As you may know, in July, 2013, the Obama administration delayed the implementation of the Affordable Care Act’s “employer mandate” for one year, until January 1, 2015. Part of the reason for the delay was to give the IRS...more

With the rollout of the Health Insurance Exchange (the “exchange”)—also known as the Health Insurance Marketplace—scheduled for this fall, and the employer’s exchange notice due by October 1, employers need to know how to...more

On July 2, the Department of the Treasury announced a one-year delay in the implementation of certain parts of the Affordable Care Act’s reporting requirements, as well as a delay in the assessment of “pay-or-play” penalties....more

Earlier this month, the Employee Benefits Security Administration issued a technical release which provides guidance and a solid deadline for employers required to provide exchange notices to their employees. ...more

Originally published in New Hampshire Business Review on March 8, 2013.
The Affordable Care Act is the most important piece of employee benefits legislation since the passage of ERISA in 1974. And in the past few...more

President Obama’s re-election confirmed that the Affordable Care Act will continue to be rolled out, and that its “pay-or-play” rules will become effective on January 1, 2014. These provisions require public and private...more

The Affordable Care Act’s requirement that employers notify employees about the health insurance exchange by March 1, 2013, has been postponed indefinitely. The Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Treasury...more

On December 28, 2012, the IRS issued a set of proposed regulations and Q-and-As providing further guidance on the Affordable Care Act’s pay-or-play rules. This is the first of three updates discussing the proposed...more

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